conditional

Only possible or valid if a particular requirement is met.

• She received a conditional offer.
• Our approval is conditional on a safety inspection.
• The agreement remained conditional until both sides signed.

How to use it: conditional on something (Payment is conditional on completing the work.)

Similar words: dependent, qualified

Opposites: unconditional

Common phrases: conditional offer, conditional approval, conditional on something

Saying that one statement follows if another statement is true.

• This is a conditional statement.
• Conditional reasoning connects a possible situation with its result.
• The class tested whether the conditional proposition was true.

Common phrases: conditional statement, conditional proposition, conditional reasoning

A verb form used to talk about imagined situations or things that depend on something else.

• Use the conditional in this sentence.
• The French conditional can express a polite request.
• We practiced forming the conditional with several verbs.

Common phrases: the conditional, use the conditional, in the conditional

A statement saying that if one thing is true, another thing is true too.

• The conditional has two parts.
• A conditional can have a false first part.
• Students checked the truth of each conditional.

Similar words: implication

Common phrases: a conditional, material conditional, true conditional